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Why HR Really Does Add Value

Harvard Business Review

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. This is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced.

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Code Is Broken. How Should We Fix It?

Harvard Business Review

It has created offshore entities holding tens of billions of dollars while claiming to be tax resident nowhere." My sense is that a consensus emerged from the hearings that Apple was not doing anything illegal. Carl Levin, the chairman of the committee , "Apple successfully sought the holy grail of tax avoidance. I asked Mihir A.

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A Brief Guide to U.S. Corporate Tax Reform

Harvard Business Review

Even in an era of bitter partisanship, there’s consensus that the U.S. So, the primary way that multinationals in particular lower their tax burden is by keeping profits “offshore” to avoid paying taxes. companies pay so little in taxes by holding cash offshore. What’s wrong with the current system?

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The Conversation We Should Be Having About Corporate Taxes

Harvard Business Review

I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that. There’s $140 to $160 billion of offshore cash, $100 billion of it is in Ireland. One, a considerably lower rate — and I think you need to get below 25% or 20% for it to be meaningful.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. This shift is undermining the liberal “Washington Consensus” that has guided policy making since the 1990s.